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• Qld Health Commission injects virtual desktops

  The Queensland Health Quality and Complaints Commission (HQCC) is nearing completion of a $400,000 IT infrastructure overhaul that will see virtual servers and desktops used throughout the organisation.
  

• Citrix releases free XenServer 5.5, new community portal

  Citrix Systems has announced the availability of Citrix XenServer 5.5, a free server virtualisation hypervisor based on the open source Xen project.

• Hills Industries climbs three-year IT overhaul

  Australian manufacturing icon Hills Industries is powering ahead with in IT refresh that will see that majority of its server infrastructure go virtual.

• VMware denies banning competitors from VMworld

  VMware this week had to reassure industry observers that it will not ban competition from the VMworld conference, after bloggers took the company to task for releasing a policy change that appeared to prevent competing vendors from demonstrating products at the virtualization trade show.

• VMware hypervisor still king for enterprise-class workloads, Burton Group says

  VMware is still the only virtualization vendor whose hypervisor meets every enterprise requirement, but rivals Citrix, Microsoft and Virtual Iron are closing in on that goal, according to research by the Burton Group.

• Sources: UI features, 'search mashups' on tap for Kumo

  The new search engine Microsoft is expected to launch this week boasts features to improve the relevance of search query results, partly by letting users set custom profile information the engine uses to tailor results, said sources familiar with the company's plans.

• Expect more from WAN optimization than just optimization

  WAN optimization is becoming just an element of larger application-delivery schemes that vendors are approaching quite differently, Interop attendees were told this week.

• Xen 3.4.0 released with more client device, Hyper-V integration

  Xen, the de facto virtualization hypervisor for Linux and the basis of Citrix's commercial products, has reached version 3.4.0 bringing improved support for client devices, integration with Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, better reliability and power management, and many CPU-level big fixes.

• More iPhone business apps emerge

  When EA Tiger Woods PGA Tour teed off on the iPhone last month, the business world must have let out a collective giggle. Finally, an iPhone app for the business executive. All joking aside, the iPhone's lack of business apps has been an Achille's heel for the popular consumer device.

• Citrix takes NetScaler MPX appliance virtual

  Citrix has launched a virtualised version of its NetScaler MPX product, an offering that a company executive has described as a "game changer".

• VMware vows to overhaul data center with 'cloud OS'

  VMware has unveiled vSphere, the long awaited overhaul of its core virtualization platform which is designed to aggregate the virtual resources in the data center into one centrally managed computing pool.

• Citrix NetScaler Web 2.0 Push cuts datacentre cost

  Santa Clara, Calif.-based Citrix Systems Inc. has added new technology to its NetScaler Web application delivery appliance designed to alleviate Web servers of the burden placed on them by resource-hungry Web 2.0 applications.

• Citrix speeds Web 2.0 apps

  Citrix Systems detailed on Tuesday what it claims to be the first Web 2.0-era push technology.

• HP automates management of VMware, virtualisation systems

  HP Wednesday announced updates to its business service automation suite designed to help customers cut the cost of managing virtualisation and improve service quality.

• Citrix adds XenServer to XenApp 5

  Citrix has announced the latest generation of its core application virtualisation product, XenApp 5, now includes XenServer for server virtualization and improved management capabilities.